On this day, the anniversary of Freud’s death, among the multitude of riches on the international psychoanalysis website, I noticed there are a number of entries with the main focus on children. I have selected a few posts, albeit biased by my own interest in child work , to highlight for you, but hope that you will also chose those which appeal to you. Nevertheless, it has been my contention in the many years that I taught child development that all analysts and mental health professionals would benefit from a thorough understanding of the child and his/her world.

Canada Research Chair for Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Michael Smith Chair for Neuroscience and Mental Health Full Professor, Depts of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa
will receive

THE ARNOLD PFEFFER PRIZE FOR 2010

and speak on
Neuropsychoanalysis – How can we practice such a transdisciplinary enterprise? (more…)

Click Here to Read: Are psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies effective?: A review of empirical data by Falk Leichsenring.

This article originally appeared as: Leichsenring, Falk (2005).Are psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies effective?: A review of empirical data. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 86:841-868 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions. (more…)

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Click Here to Read: Q&A: A Yale Psychologist Calls for the End of Individual Psychotherapy By Maia Szalavitz Tuesdayin Time Magazine on September 13, 2011.

To the Editors,

In your Healthland column of Sept. 13, you present an interview with Dr. Alan Kazdin. We are wholeheartedly in agreement with his opinion that effective mental health treatment needs to be made more widely available. However, his comments about individual psychotherapy are wildly inaccurate and ignore current research. ‘Ironically, as he speaks out to try to help

Shevrin addresses one crucial aspect of the recent dissatisfactions within the American Psychoanalytic: training analysis. Click Here to Read:

He states a foundational problem clearly: organizations value power. Privileged knowledge (the intimate vulnerabilities of a candidate’s personal life) when combined with official power (overseeing promotion, graduation, (more…)

Click Here to Read: Pedagogy in Purgatory: Reviews of the books Terezín: Voices from the Holocaust by Ruth Thomson and Through a Narrow Window: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and her Terezín Students by Linney Wix, Reviewed by Ellen Handler Spitz on the New Republic Books website on September 21, 2011.

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